torricellian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Source: opted
2. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. -- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Hutton. Source: webster
3. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher andmathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid ina tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. SeeBarometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches inlength, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper,such as is used in the barometer.-- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling witha fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and,after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowingthe inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by thepressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Hutton. Source: adambom
4. a. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Source: ecdict

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